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Acquia Inc. has raised $15 million in a Series D financing that adds California-based Tenaya Capital to a list of Boston-area venture capital backers that includes North Bridge Venture Partners and Sigma Partners, according to a report Wednesday morning.

Acquia Inc., a Woburn company that provides a set of Drupal development tools for building and managing social media sites, has raised $15 million of a planned $20 million equity round, bringing the four-year-old company’s total funding to more than $30 million.

Acquia, the leading provider of commercial solutions for Drupal, has completed a $15 million Series D financing round. Tenaya Capital joined the round, along with significant follow-on participation by existing investors Northbridge Venture Partners and Sigma Partners.

Woburn, MA-based Acquia, a social publishing software firm, has raised a $15 million Series D round from Tenaya Capital, North Bridge Venture Partners, and Sigma Partners, according to a report in All Things D. Acquia started in 2007 and, among other things, helps organizations build community sites using Drupal, an open-source content management system. Its customers include Twitter, Al Jazeera, Mercedes-Benz, Stanford University, and the U.S. Department of Defense. The company, which is led by CEO Tom Erickson, has raised about $38.5 million to date, according to the report.

Acquia Inc. has raised $15 million in a Series D financing that adds California-based Tenaya Capital to a list of Boston-area venture capital backers that includes North Bridge Venture Partners and Sigma Partners, according to a report Wednesday morning.

Acquia, which helps companies build community sites using the open-source content management system Drupal, has raised $15 million in Series D funding from Tenaya Capital, Northbridge Venture partners and Sigma Partners.

Acquia's Jim Shaw discusses the cloud and that today’s web applications face very real challenges to deployment. Websites are incredibly content rich, highly dynamic, and subject to massive swings in load because of anything from content gone viral to the death of a celebrity.

Acquia, a provider of commercial solutions for Drupal, announced that Twitter (News - Alert) selected a Drupal-based community solution for its new Twitter developer Web site at dev.twitter.com.

Twitter announced the launch of the developer Web site which was developed with support and guidance from Acquia.

Leveraging Acquia solutions, Twitter offers information, tools and assistance for 750,000 developers across the Twitter ecosystem. It includes access to documents, APIs, tips, tutorials, blogs, and forums designed to connect developers to the Twitter team and each other.

Twitter has created a Web site for the more than 750,000 developers who design and build platforms that complement the company's social site. (Did you catch that number?) Dev.Twitter.com debuted Monday, developed with support from the company Acquia.

Acquia, a provider of commercial solutions for Drupal, announced today that Twitter selected a Drupal-based community solution for its new Twitter developer website at dev.twitter.com. The site, which was developed with support and guidance from Acquia, launched July 11, 2011.

Despite Twitter buying up the most popular third-party apps, there is still a booming market for new tools to help manage the sprawling Twitterverse, and guess who is helping Twitter support that market? Acquia & Drupal.

Today's web applications face very real challenges to deployment. Websites are incredibly content rich, highly dynamic, and subject to massive swings in load because of anything from content gone viral to the death of a celebrity.

Putting a CMS in the cloud addresses the scalability issue--at least, in theory. The cloud must be optimized for the application to get its full benefit. It doesn't matter that three servers are ready to catch extra traffic if they're not configured to do so. Further, a cloud platform that's not configured to match the CMS's particular needs will have to work much harder than it needs to, resulting in higher loads than is really needed to serve the traffic. For example, it makes sense to cache static content: But will the cloud be able to tell the difference between a user who's signed into the application (and therefore receives dynamic content) and one who isn't?

R2integrated (R2i), a digital marketing and technology firm, has entered into an enterprise level partnership agreement with Acquia, the leading provider of commercial solutions for the open source Drupal social publishing system.

This partnership combines the power of Acquia’s Drupal products and services with R2i’s enterprise experience in designing, creating and executing award-winning web properties for a range of clients, from small non-profits and local businesses to large enterprises. Together, the partners will be delivering innovative online experiences that facilitate social publishing and drive engagement.

Acquia, which was founded by Drupal's creator in 2007, announced Commons 2.0, the next version of its social business software. Commons, an open-source platform, combines social features such as activity streams, social networking, blogs, wikis, badges and events with analytics, support and management services.

Their newest release will give enterprises the freedom to create communities based on their social style and design. Acquia touts easy integration of its SaaS solution, promising deployment in weeks instead of months, and a lower cost than proprietary solutions, the company says.

Anyone who thinks cloud isn't displacing jobs should talk with Dries Buytaert, co-founder and CTO of Acquia, a Drupal-based PaaS. During a panel on the future of cloud, he said one of the largest media and entertainment companies has moved a bunch of sites to the Acquia service and let go the "entire IT team" that was running those sites. Word to the wise: If your job title is "Web master" at Acme Corp., watch out.

Acquia introduced Commons 2.0, the next generation of its open social business software solution. The new version features enhanced flexibility to choose social interaction style for a community site, cloud installation and configuration within weeks, and enhanced control over designs, features and templates.